Friday, December 28, 2007

Quartz Composer

...is pretty neat. Some blogger was raving about FlickrFan, which lets you display images from an RSS feed as your screen saver. It sounded pretty cool, but needing a whole application seemed like overkill. I really wanted Google Photos Screensaver, but it requires Windows. I tested out Quartz Composer instead, which is like Yahoo Pipes. It lets you start from a screen saver template that's a simplified version of the "RSS Visualizer" screen saver. I got something working according to the testing interface though when I view it through Desktop & Screen Saver in System Preferences, the caption display isn't synchronized with the image.

If somebody is bored, would you mind puttinghttp://martin.davidssons.com/Image%20RSS.qtz in ~/Library/Screen Saver and testing it out to see if you get the same results? Try http://static.flickrfan.org/ap/rss.xml as the URL. Thanks